Health status and fertility intentions among migrants
| Published date | 01 August 2022 |
| Author | Giammarco Alderotti,Eleonora Trappolini |
| Date | 01 August 2022 |
| DOI | http://doi.org/10.1111/imig.12921 |
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International Migration. 2022;60:164–177.
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INTRODUCTION
Migrants’ fer tility has always been a p rominent topic in demogr aphic research. Interes t in this topic was renewed
recently in the European context mainly due to two trends: the persistence of low- fertility regimes in most
Received: 21 May 2021
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Accepted: 16 August 2 021
DOI: 10.1111/imig.12921
ORIGINAL ARTICLE
Health status and fertility intentions among
migrants
Giammarco Alderotti1| Eleonora Trappolini2
This is an open ac cess article und er the terms of the Crea tive Commons Attr ibution License, w hich permits use , distribution an d
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© 2021 The Author s. International Migration published by John Wil ey & Sons Ltd on behalf of In ternational Org anization for
Migration
[Correcti on added on 8 Novem ber 2021, after f irst online pu blication: Pe er history rev iew have been adde d.]
1Departme nt of Statistics, C omputer
Science, App lications “G. Pa renti”,
Universit y of Florence, Firenze , Italy
2Departm ent of Sociology an d Social
Research, Un iversity of Milan – Bicocca,
Milano, Ital y
Correspondence
Giammarco Al derotti, Depar tment of
Statistic s, Computer Scien ce, Application s
“G. Parenti ”, University of Floren ce, Viale
Morgagni, 65, 5 0134 Florence, Ita ly.
Email: giammarco.alderotti@unifi.it
Abstract
The role of h ealth has never entered th e debate about mi-
grant fe rtility. The main goal of this work was to e xplore,
for the first t ime, the relationship between health and
fertility intentions among migrants by gender, duration of
stay and parit y. Three hea lth measures were co nsidered:
self- rated health, the pres ence of chronic illnesses and
mental health. We compiled data from the It alian survey
"Social C ondition and Integ ration of Foreign Citizens" and
employed generalized order ed logistic models to test the
relationship bet ween health and ferti lity intentions among
migrants. Our findings show t hat poor health negatively
affects migrants’ fertilit y intenti ons, net of a wide arr ay
of control variables (including employment and rea son for
migration). This is espe cially true among long- term migrant
women, and, among the latter, the effect is strongest when
chronic illnesses and me ntal health are considered. We en-
courage future r esearch to consider health in the demo-
graphic debate abo ut migrant fertility.
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